Majella Cullagh interprets Tom Lehrer and so much more in her new show, says Jo Kerrigan

The stars and stripes blended easily into a sea of green in tourist-haven Killarney as early American visitors, some dressed like overgrown leprechauns, joined in St Patrick’s Day festivities.

Marcus Connaughton’s new biography of Rory Gallagher is a labour of love. Pat Ahern on a single-minded but lonely hero from another century

A record prize fund for the National Dairy Show on Oct 20 was announced this week.

Pat Ahern of Ronan Daly Jermyn Solicitors explains PSRA form and lease rights

Stephen Cadogan reports from the National Dairy Show at Millstreet.

MARK NUTSFORD will judge the handler and dairy classes in the 29th National Dairy Show in Millstreet, on Saturday, October 15.

A RARE National Dairy Show, two-in-a-row win kept the Barrett clan of Togher and Adamstown, Cork, at the top of Irish dairy showing last weekend.

TOP prize money drew livestock exhibitors from all corners of the country to the Bantry Agricultural Show in west Cork last Sunday.

AN Bord Pleanála has given the green light for the redevelopment of a “virtually derelict” site close to a major junction at the northern entrance to top tourist town Killarney.

THEY say you can take a white horse anywhere, but it seems Midleton horse trainer Dan Rohan can take his bay mare anywhere and win.

A POLITICIAN has promised to investigate the case of a man who claims he has no option but to live in a shack on an tiny isolated estuary island.

STUDENTS will stage two rallies at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) today urging management and lecturers to resolve a row which has meant Christmas exam results have not yet been issued.

CORK Institute of Technology has insisted that the upgrading of around 100 students originally deemed to have failed part of their final exams proves the independence of its appeals system.

VISITORS returning to the scene of last year’s World Holstein Friesian Conference Show at Millstreet will again see the best of Irish cows.

CONNOISSEURS of dairy cows are in for a treat at the National Dairy Show in Millstreet, Co Cork on Saturday, October 17.

CORK Institute of Technology has declined to reveal how much it paid for portraits of two senior managers.

KILMALLOCK held off a late Garryspillane fightback to book their place in the quarter-finals of the Limerick senior hurling championship.

ONE of the country’s largest third-level colleges will not be renewing the contracts of up to 60 staff next autumn as part of a series of cutbacks due to financial pressure.

OWNERS of the land outside Cork city which was revealed this week as a dumping ground for hospital patient records recently put the site up for sale.

Limerick have included championship debutant Ger Collins in their team for Saturday's All-Ireland SFC qualifier against Louth (Gaelic Grounds, throw-in 7pm).

Tomas Quinn was Dublin's saviour as they scraped to their first win of the new NFL campaign at the Gaelic Grounds.

James Masters pulled Cork through to next month's Munster SFC final as he scored all bar one of their points in a 0-09 to 0-05 victory over a sorry Limerick side at the Gaelic Grounds.

Owen Keating has been passed fit to play for Limerick in Sunday's Munster SFC semi-final against Cork (Gaelic Grounds, throw-in 4.00pm).

THERE is one change on the Limerick team for Sunday's Allianz National Hurling League quarter-final against Waterford in Thurles.

THE Waterford selectors have sprung a major surprise by handing Portlaw’s Jack Hartley his debut at midfield for Sunday’s vital Division 1B National Hurling League game against Offaly in Birr.

A FORMER Kerry football star, disabled by a stroke over five years ago, is about to add another hard-won trophy to his array of medals.

A FORMER Kerry football star, disabled by a stroke over five years ago, is about to add another hard-won trophy to his array of medals.

TEACHERS at Cork School of Music have told the Government the time is over for excuses about delays in work on their new €60 million facility.

SENIOR players Seanie Buckley, Pat Ahern and Johnny McCarthy are included in the Limerick team to play Waterford in the Munster U21 FC semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday.

HOPES have been raised that work could begin soon on the €60 million Cork School of Music with German company Hochtief taking over responsibility for the project from Jarvis, the British company involved in the original deal with the Government.

Athea 2-12 Claughaun 2-3

AROUND 2,500 students at Cork School of Music could be without classes next autumn as staff take industrial action over unsuitable facilities.

Waterford 2-26

Limerick 0-16

Waterford 2-26 Kerry 1-12

THE long-awaited redevelopment of the Cork School of Music will not go ahead unless European finance rules are changed, Education Minister Noel Dempsey insisted yesterday.

Limerick produced their second sensation of the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers with a shock five point victory over Offaly at the Gaelic Grounds.

Derry 1-17 3-10 Down

Down 1-13 3-8 Derry

Half-time: Derry 1-8 3-7 Down